The Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) has named Paresh Dandona, MD, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of medicine and chief of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, as the recipient of its 2020 Lifetime Contribution Award.
Students and postdoctoral associates from laboratories affiliated with the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics graduate program (GGB) shared their findings during the sixth annual GGB Research Day.
In the eight months since the University at Buffalo and partners launched the Innovation Hub, seven entrepreneurial teams — including one from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences — have received funding from the initiative.
Second-year medical students Cullan V. Donnelly and Ryan Elnicki teamed up with the Buffalo Bills this past season to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Western New York in memory of an inspiring young man who made an impact on students and faculty at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
POP Biotechnologies Inc. (POP BIO), a University at Buffalo spinoff, has received a $600,000 contract from the National Institutes of Health to pursue development of a life-saving, life-changing technology: a vaccine against HIV.
Timothy F. Murphy, MD, senior associate dean for clinical and translational research and SUNY Distinguished Professor of medicine, is leading a major initiative addressing health disparities among people living on Buffalo’s East Side.
Results of a study by lead author Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen, PhD, a former graduate research assistant in the Department of Pediatrics, point to the need for expanding mobile and farmers markets to improve the diets of people who live in low-income communities.
Raymond P. Dannenhoffer, PhD, associate dean for support services, has received the 2019 Newman Award from UB Catholic, the university’s Catholic Campus Ministry.
A UB spinoff company that is developing a low-cost blood test to screen high-risk patients for unruptured brain aneurysms has received $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
UB HEALS, a street medicine outreach initiative of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, held a foot clinic Dec. 5 for Buffalo’s homeless population.
Jerrold C. Winter, PhD, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, is the author of an entertaining and informative new book, “Our Love Affair with Drugs: The History, the Science, the Politics,” published by Oxford University Press.
Otolaryngology surgeons and residents, facial plastic surgeons and other health care personnel got to experience cutting edge technology and techniques during Rhinofest 2019, which took place this fall at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building.
The New York State Area Health Education Center System (AHEC), based in the Department of Family Medicine, has received two federal grants for programs aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic.
Garwood Medical Devices, LLC, has been granted “Breakthrough Device” designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company’s BioPrax device, a tool it is developing to help eliminate biofilm infections on prosthetic knee implants.
Tracey A. Ignatowski, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, has developed a treatment for chronic pain that could have an impact in dealing with the opioid crisis.